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measures used to save our lives. children who have had cancer often experience confusion and embarrassment as they try to return to a so-called normal life and are dealing with the physical side effects related to their cancer and treatment. i can attest to that. several years ago, when cancer struck me, i fought so hard for my life. i had countless needle pricks, blood transfusions, vomitting and physical therapy so i could live to see the sun rise and the snow fall. i'm so grateful to be alive. still, the aftermath from the cancer treatments that i have endured have affected me in many of the serving ways. every morning i wake up with the ringing in my ear, which never stops. i have trouble with my memory and i may never be able to have children on my own. how ironic that i fought so hard to save my own life, yet now, i may never be able to give life. and senators, i'm considered one of the success stories. although there has been a significant increase in the cure rate of childhood cancer, children still are getti
measures used to save our lives. children who have had cancer often experience confusion and embarrassment as they try to return to a so-called normal life and are dealing with the physical side effects related to their cancer and treatment. i can attest to that. several years ago, when cancer struck me, i fought so hard for my life. i had countless needle pricks, blood transfusions, vomitting and physical therapy so i could live to see the sun rise and the snow fall. i'm so grateful to be...
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why that buys us a great deal. you might ask yourself why in the world do we have nuclear aircraft carriers, what do they do? other countries that are allies of ours don't have ships like that, why would we? the reason is, if you think about america and the globe, america is sitting there a little bit to a degree by itself, and our two main trading partners, europe and all the way around to china, japan and india, those trading partners are a considerable distance around the world. it is in our interest because of all the things that we buy that are traded that we protect those trade routes from some hedge monothat might want to cause trouble. -- from some hegemon that might want to cause trouble. so we have our nuclear aircraft carriers to go to the other side of the world and conduct operations without worrying about filling these things up and that's the reason why we have a lot of national defense. this started a long time ago. you can see this blue line here talks about our defense and what's going on with def
why that buys us a great deal. you might ask yourself why in the world do we have nuclear aircraft carriers, what do they do? other countries that are allies of ours don't have ships like that, why would we? the reason is, if you think about america and the globe, america is sitting there a little bit to a degree by itself, and our two main trading partners, europe and all the way around to china, japan and india, those trading partners are a considerable distance around the world. it is in our...
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if you want to help us, give us the courtesy, have the good grace to ask us how we want to be helped. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentleman from california. mr. issa: mr. speaker, as it says in the constitution, to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over the district, and that is what we are doing, it gives me great pleasure to recognize the whip of the house, mr. mccarthy, for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for five minutes. mr. mccarthy: i thank the distinguished chairman. as i listen to the debate, people want to know if anybody was asked. you realize there are four times as many children who want a scholarship than there's one needed for. those are the people we should ask. those are the people that have been asked. those are the people that have asked to be able to have a new life, a new direction and a hope that we all dream about in america. i will tell you this morning, like almost every morning when i'm in washington, d.c., we got th
if you want to help us, give us the courtesy, have the good grace to ask us how we want to be helped. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentleman from california. mr. issa: mr. speaker, as it says in the constitution, to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over the district, and that is what we are doing, it gives me great pleasure to recognize the whip of the house, mr. mccarthy, for five minutes. the speaker...
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host: thank you matt apuzzo for joining us. please join us again. guest: yes. thank you. host: in the senate, live coverage on c-span 2 as the senators voting on h.r.-1 all here on the c-span networks. e s house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a comm speaker. the clerk: the speaker's room, washington, d.c., march 9, 2011. i hereby appoint the honorable virginia foxx to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father coughlin. chaplain coughlin: of late signs of spring speak of new life, o lord. may the first gasps of freedom stabilize the earth with fresh beauty. may heroic hearts of leadership, the world over, bursts forth with sounds of thanksgiving for your sounds of grace. hopefully, lord, our spring fasting and our renewal in prayer will peel away illusions for the nation and personal self-deception. may rage, violence and anger be drowned out by gentle rains. as with common endeavor, we work for the uprooting of weeds
host: thank you matt apuzzo for joining us. please join us again. guest: yes. thank you. host: in the senate, live coverage on c-span 2 as the senators voting on h.r.-1 all here on the c-span networks. e s house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a comm speaker. the clerk: the speaker's room, washington, d.c., march 9, 2011. i hereby appoint the honorable virginia foxx to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the...
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they should report to us, the f.a.a. should report to us. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from new jersey. mr. garrett: i yield a minute and a half to the gentleman from connecticut. the chair: the gentleman is recognized 1 -- recognized for a minute and a half. mr. himes: mr. speaker, i rise in support of the amendment that's at the desk. the redesign of the airspace over new york-new jersey, philadelphia to improve our air travel. the redesign was badly implemented from the start and used flawed prors. plans for this redesign have moved forward without proper input from stakeholders and without regard to the parties who are affected, notably, many of my constituents. planes have been rerouted to fly over southwestern connecticut upon dissent into new york airports, my stwets have begun to hear unprecedented noise levels. not a day goes by that i don't hear this from my constituents. i call upon the f.a.a. to simply study alternatives. we know that there are good alternatives. this should be done prudently and car
they should report to us, the f.a.a. should report to us. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from new jersey. mr. garrett: i yield a minute and a half to the gentleman from connecticut. the chair: the gentleman is recognized 1 -- recognized for a minute and a half. mr. himes: mr. speaker, i rise in support of the amendment that's at the desk. the redesign of the airspace over new york-new jersey, philadelphia to improve our air travel. the redesign was badly implemented...
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we do not use data that way in california. that is why california is one of the worst performing states. you have got to look at data. test scores are not an end all. you do not evaluate teacher only on test scores. there has to be a mechanism to determine the kids are learning. you have to have other ways to evaluate a teacher's effectiveness. >> good discussion. now it is your turn. those who have questions, please raise your hand. i will get the microphone to you. let's see area right here. >> i am a clinton school student. thank you so much for being here. my question is about parents. you talked about teachers and holding them accountable and giving them resources. i know a few teachers in the d.c. i used to live there. despite their efforts, they still had students that would fail. despite the challenges, a lot of the obstacles would be the parents. how do you see the parents in these new initiatives? thank you. >> i do not think anyone would argue with you that we need more parental involvement. we need parents to be en
we do not use data that way in california. that is why california is one of the worst performing states. you have got to look at data. test scores are not an end all. you do not evaluate teacher only on test scores. there has to be a mechanism to determine the kids are learning. you have to have other ways to evaluate a teacher's effectiveness. >> good discussion. now it is your turn. those who have questions, please raise your hand. i will get the microphone to you. let's see area right...
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host: and it would be used for extending the use of technologies. guest: it is a revolutionary approach to identify people that are in the nation's criminal justice system that are here unlawfully. we are using the fingerprints taken at the moment of arrest and running them through the database of the fbi and the homeland security database. we can determine if they are here unlawfully in committing crimes -- a and committing crimes. the institutional hearing program is a twist on a similar theme, which is trying to reach people who are to portable from the country for a crime while they are still serving a sentence. if you are serving three years due to a drug offense in a state or federal penitentiary, which tried to reach you at that moment, have a hearing while you are incarcerated, so that when you come out, you are released to us, not on the streets. host: the request for 2011, 5.8 billion. the request for 2010, 5.4 billion. -- a 5.7 billion. under this debate over spending cuts, making adjustments here and there, do you cut back like other pro
host: and it would be used for extending the use of technologies. guest: it is a revolutionary approach to identify people that are in the nation's criminal justice system that are here unlawfully. we are using the fingerprints taken at the moment of arrest and running them through the database of the fbi and the homeland security database. we can determine if they are here unlawfully in committing crimes -- a and committing crimes. the institutional hearing program is a twist on a similar...
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leave us alone. after the cap-and-trade legislation on sulfur emissions, we did not give the many subsidies. we said that they have to figure out how to reduce the emissions. we're just telling you the goal. you figure out how to reach the goal. the result was reaching a goal at a lot less of a cost, a fraction of the cost of what people were testifying before. the biggest change was that those high sulphur people who said there were no problem, they were displaced by the low-sulfur coal. that was the cheapest way to achieve the results. rather than protect high sulphur coal, we'll let the market force it's worked. they suffered a real disadvantage. some industries can overplay their hand. the coal industry they overplay its hand, especially when we are reaching their hands out and saying, we will try to develop a program so that coal be a viable industry. we will help pay for it. perhaps ey will have to pay for it. they are not as interested in the financial well-being. they are interested in ideolo
leave us alone. after the cap-and-trade legislation on sulfur emissions, we did not give the many subsidies. we said that they have to figure out how to reduce the emissions. we're just telling you the goal. you figure out how to reach the goal. the result was reaching a goal at a lot less of a cost, a fraction of the cost of what people were testifying before. the biggest change was that those high sulphur people who said there were no problem, they were displaced by the low-sulfur coal. that...
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we had nevittability facing us. statements in that time indicated fannie and freddie were sound and in fact it was the ad hoc nature of these things that caused great instability in the market on wall street. the price ofing to bes began to fall as people said, we can't trust that the government is going to be predictable in this and we better be bailing out and i look at that time as a period of overreaction, underreaction and questionable judgments, false statements were made and i believe that it severely impacted the length and depth of what was going on. have you got any comments? >> my comment is that if we had -- we did everything we could given the limited tools we had to prevent any collapses. we did find a way to solve the bear stearns problem. what i think he moon -- lehman demonstrated is if we had allowed other firms to fail as well the entire financial system could have collapsed and we would have seen a far worse recession than the one we had. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> the time of the gentleman h
we had nevittability facing us. statements in that time indicated fannie and freddie were sound and in fact it was the ad hoc nature of these things that caused great instability in the market on wall street. the price ofing to bes began to fall as people said, we can't trust that the government is going to be predictable in this and we better be bailing out and i look at that time as a period of overreaction, underreaction and questionable judgments, false statements were made and i believe...
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it took the 16th amendment to burden us with that. it is up to us. [applause] >> these will be our final two questions. >> the question is we do enjoy the tax-deductible contribution. how does a fair tax handle that situation? >> this is what they will scare you with. a deduction is only good when you are taxed. you make your house payment 100% tax-free. your gift to your church or nonprofit organization is tax- free. these are all part of the game they are playing with we want the games to stop. [applause] >> this will be our final question. >> i was a republican candidate in the last presidential election. i am what you call an extreme long-shot. [laughter] my question for the panel is the military and catholic church had existed across thousands of years in different cultures with dozens of levels. how can we reduce the level of bureaucracy which nothing intelligent will probably happen? >> i already answered that a couple of times. you have to get rid of the monopoly bargaining system within the work force. before you do that you cannot make any
it took the 16th amendment to burden us with that. it is up to us. [applause] >> these will be our final two questions. >> the question is we do enjoy the tax-deductible contribution. how does a fair tax handle that situation? >> this is what they will scare you with. a deduction is only good when you are taxed. you make your house payment 100% tax-free. your gift to your church or nonprofit organization is tax- free. these are all part of the game they are playing with we...
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before us. the rules committee chose not to make that amendment in order and therefore i oppose the rule. but to talk to the gentleman, i spent eight years on the staff of the other body and this is my 35th year in the house of representatives, ok? nobody ever gets everything they want. there is a process where we have the house passes the bill, goes to the senate and then we have a conference committee or the senate sends the bill back to us. and both sides meet and work out their differences. there's give and take, there's compromise. and that is the way this process works. and i also want to say to the gentleman and to your side, remember it was the democratic congress and the house senate and mr. obama signing the $41 billion cut from the obama f.y. 2011 budget. it was the democrats that did it. we had one republican vote, walter jones. and i just want to remind you, that was done in december, in a lame duck session, which turned out to be a very effective lame duck session. and in that bill
before us. the rules committee chose not to make that amendment in order and therefore i oppose the rule. but to talk to the gentleman, i spent eight years on the staff of the other body and this is my 35th year in the house of representatives, ok? nobody ever gets everything they want. there is a process where we have the house passes the bill, goes to the senate and then we have a conference committee or the senate sends the bill back to us. and both sides meet and work out their differences....
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to all of us. mr. perlmutter: your point, to my friend from california, is that manufacturing matters in vs. -- matters and having jobs in america matters. if we make it in america we will make it in america. our focus should be on providing good jobs here with good infrastructure, whether that's education, highways, transit, energy, in this country so that for ourselves, our kids, our grandkids there's a prosperous future. but the republicans completely missed that entire approach. and i liken it to this. people say let's look at it if this is a family and a family has to tighten its belt sometimes. no question about it. let's really look at what's occurred here and look at the country as a family because we are all in this together. you know, sometimes we can do something by ourselves, but most of the time we're in this together. and so what's happened here -- let's look at it -- is at the beginning of this century back in 2001, 2003 -- 2002, the country took a voluntary pay cut. when the tax cut
to all of us. mr. perlmutter: your point, to my friend from california, is that manufacturing matters in vs. -- matters and having jobs in america matters. if we make it in america we will make it in america. our focus should be on providing good jobs here with good infrastructure, whether that's education, highways, transit, energy, in this country so that for ourselves, our kids, our grandkids there's a prosperous future. but the republicans completely missed that entire approach. and i liken...
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they want us to go to work. they don't want us to take next week off. they want us to create jobs. right now the uncertainty with these two or three week short-term spending bills is creating a lot of havoc. i think it will create havoc on the financial markets. it's already creating havoc within the federal agencies because they don't know where they are going to be operating from one week to the next. it's not good for the country. it's not good for the economy. we may disagree but need to work together. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from -- the gentleman from georgia is recognized. mr. woodall: i yield myself 30 seconds to stay to the gentleman from new jersey, i just couldn't agree with him more. the house spoke. it wasn't republicans that spoke. it wasn't democrats that spoke. the house spoke with h.r. 1. we need to get to the negotiating table. i don't know when the senate's going to act. i hope the senate acts today. i'll stay here just as long as it takes to work
they want us to go to work. they don't want us to take next week off. they want us to create jobs. right now the uncertainty with these two or three week short-term spending bills is creating a lot of havoc. i think it will create havoc on the financial markets. it's already creating havoc within the federal agencies because they don't know where they are going to be operating from one week to the next. it's not good for the country. it's not good for the economy. we may disagree but need to...
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any of us that live in orlando, anybody visited us, know that another lane won't help us. we have eight lanes. i just returned monday from salt lake city, utah, where we lost the money. it went a few years ago, money for orlando, went to salt lake city, utah, and they run trains every day, move 40,000 people a day rail. salt lake city, utah. so the money that we have appropriated, this friday, will go to some other state. it will go to new york or california or salt lake city, utah, or some other place. we are going to have rail in this country. what happens when failure is not an option? we must make sure that we work together to put floridians to work. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: members are reminded to address the chair with their remarks. the gentleman from ohio, mr. ryan, is recognized for five minutes. mr. ryan: thank you, mr. speaker. a few years back towards the end of my grandfather's life, he was a steelworker for about 40 years. and towards the end of his life he couldn't drive anymore. i had the pleasure
any of us that live in orlando, anybody visited us, know that another lane won't help us. we have eight lanes. i just returned monday from salt lake city, utah, where we lost the money. it went a few years ago, money for orlando, went to salt lake city, utah, and they run trains every day, move 40,000 people a day rail. salt lake city, utah. so the money that we have appropriated, this friday, will go to some other state. it will go to new york or california or salt lake city, utah, or some...
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you use your assets, you use your, you know, men and women. you get out there and do it, and you take the consequences. if something bad happens -- and i want to remind people that we had a no-fly zone over iraq. it did not prevent saddam hussein from slaughtering people on the ground and it did not get him out of office. we had a no-fly zone and then we had 78 days of bombing in serbia. it did not get him out of office. it did not get him out of kosovo until we put troops on the ground with our allies. so i really want people to understand what we are looking at. and i will reiterate what the president has said and what our administration has consistently said. we are considering everything, but we think it's important that the congress and the public understand as much as possible about what that actually means. and i can assure you that the president's not going to make any decision without a great deal of careful thought and deliberation. thank you. >> i appreciate the thoughtfulness and the caution. i really do. i'll reserve my questions,
you use your assets, you use your, you know, men and women. you get out there and do it, and you take the consequences. if something bad happens -- and i want to remind people that we had a no-fly zone over iraq. it did not prevent saddam hussein from slaughtering people on the ground and it did not get him out of office. we had a no-fly zone and then we had 78 days of bombing in serbia. it did not get him out of office. it did not get him out of kosovo until we put troops on the ground with...
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some of us are. and this is one program that allows us to do that. so i rise in opposition to this bill. i ask that we rethink this idea about eliminating the full voluntary programs that we've got to support housing and to support families that are in a tough spot right now. and i just urge my colleagues to oppose the underlying bill and to try to preserve the neighborhood stabilization program. thank you. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlelady from illinois. mrs. biggert: mr. chairman, i yield two minutes to the gentleman from new york, a member of the financial services committee. the chair: the gentleman from new york is recognized for two minutes. >> thank you, chairman. i rise today to supportsn' do w it's supposed to do. this is exactly why i came to congress. this bill hurts struggling homeowners. it doesn't help them because it gives some type of perverse incentive for the banks to foreclose. because that's what this progra mr. grim: it's reckless, it's dollars. it really ends up being noth
some of us are. and this is one program that allows us to do that. so i rise in opposition to this bill. i ask that we rethink this idea about eliminating the full voluntary programs that we've got to support housing and to support families that are in a tough spot right now. and i just urge my colleagues to oppose the underlying bill and to try to preserve the neighborhood stabilization program. thank you. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the...
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before us, and i know it's mr. rahall and others have talked about the provision in the legislation that i believe, too, is a poison pill. i will not go into all of the details as we will have an amendment later, but let me just say that the latourette-costello amendment i hope will be supported by members of this body. it's a poison pill provision, section 903 in this legislation, that is certain to hold the legislation up in the senate. there is no way that i see the senate acting on that provision and the white house of course has already issued a statement saying that the president will receive recommendations from his advisors to veto the bill. if we are serious about passing a long-term f.a.a. bill this provision must come out. if it remains in the bill it will be rejected by the senate and the white house. madam chair, i will again say, and sive said many times before, i will work with my colleagues across the aisle to produce a fair bill that will not only pass the house but will pass the senate and be sign
before us, and i know it's mr. rahall and others have talked about the provision in the legislation that i believe, too, is a poison pill. i will not go into all of the details as we will have an amendment later, but let me just say that the latourette-costello amendment i hope will be supported by members of this body. it's a poison pill provision, section 903 in this legislation, that is certain to hold the legislation up in the senate. there is no way that i see the senate acting on that...